clone.2: Eliminate some redundant phrasing in discussion of "fn()"

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2
index 689734475a83767f8559221d478f0571411d2bf8..65aa1a911c4b583939d857008f578f4543f8c0a3 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/clone.2
+++ b/man2/clone.2
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ run concurrently in a shared address space.
 .PP
 When the child process is created with
 .BR clone (),
-it executes the function
-.IR fn ( arg ).
+it commences execution by calling the function pointed to by the argument
+.IR fn .
 (This differs from
 .BR fork (2),
 where execution continues in the child from the point
@@ -96,14 +96,9 @@ of the
 .BR fork (2)
 call.)
 The
-.I fn
-argument is a pointer to a function that is called by the child
-process at the beginning of its execution.
-The
 .I arg
-argument is passed to the
-.I fn
-function.
+argument is passed as the argument of the function
+.IR fn .
 .PP
 When the
 .IR fn ( arg )